“James Wade is a poet of the dark. With gorgeous lyricism, he writes of...choices that must be made when desperate times require desperate measures.”

—William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace and This Tender Land

"Wade's pitch-perfect, personality-driven dialogue sings in the voice of life, and his ability to meld existential thought, situational metaphor, and cinematic setting is a full-bodied experience."

New York Journal of Books

"Wade is a craftsman. His books should be read slowly, to luxuriate in his word choices, his sentence structure, his character revelation. That is why he is a joy to read."

James L. Haley, Spur Award-winning author

"The manner in which Wade sees life so clearly, even in the dark, creates a psychology of characters carefully wrought."

Lucy Griffith, WILLA Literary Award-winning poet

"James Wade summons a storm of words and emotions and masters it like a prophet in the eye of his own hurricane."

Rudy Ruiz, Award-Winning Author

" James Wade has all the tools, imagination, and more than enough passion to be at the vanguard of the best Grit-Lit writers of his generation."

Matt Bondurant, Bestselling Author

"Embrace James Wade, and wonder what hidden muse sits next to him, teasing out such magical tales of goodness, grace, tragedy, and redemption.”

Sid Balman Jr., Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist